Jeremiah 18:15
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15 (A)But my people have forgotten me;
they make offerings to (B)false gods;
they made them stumble in their ways,
(C)in the ancient roads,
and to walk into side roads,
(D)not the highway,
Jeremiah 6:16
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16 Thus says the Lord:
“Stand by the roads, and look,
and ask for (A)the ancient paths,
where the good way is; and walk in it,
(B)and find rest for your souls.
But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
Hosea 11:2
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2 (A)The more they were called,
the more they went away;
(B)they kept sacrificing to the Baals
and burning offerings to idols.
Jeremiah 2:32
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32 (A)Can a virgin forget her ornaments,
or a bride her attire?
Yet (B)my people have forgotten me
days without number.
Isaiah 57:14
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Comfort for the Contrite
14 And it shall be said,
(A)“Build up, build up, prepare the way,
remove every obstruction from my people's way.”
Malachi 2:8
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8 But you have turned aside from the way. (A)You have caused many to stumble by your instruction. You have corrupted (B)the covenant of Levi, says the Lord of hosts,
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Jeremiah 2:13
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13 for my people have committed two evils:
(A)they have forsaken (B)me,
the fountain of (C)living waters,
and hewed out cisterns for themselves,
broken cisterns that can hold no water.
Jeremiah 17:13
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13 O Lord, (A)the hope of Israel,
(B)all who forsake you shall be put to shame;
those who turn away from you[a] (C)shall be written in the earth,
for (D)they have forsaken (E)the Lord, the fountain of living water.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 17:13 Hebrew me
Jeremiah 10:15
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15 They are worthless, a work of delusion;
at the time of their punishment they shall perish.
Isaiah 41:29
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29 (A)Behold, they are all a delusion;
their works are nothing;
their metal images are empty wind.
Matthew 15:6
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6 he need not honor his father.’ So for the sake of your tradition you have (A)made void the word[a] of God.
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- Matthew 15:6 Some manuscripts law
Hosea 2:13
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13 And (A)I will punish her for (B)the feast days of the Baals
when she burned offerings to them
and (C)adorned herself with her ring and jewelry,
and went after her lovers
and forgot me, declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 16:19
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19 (A)O Lord, my strength and my stronghold,
(B)my refuge in the day of trouble,
(C)to you shall the nations come
from the ends of the earth and say:
“Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies,
(D)worthless things in which there is no profit.
Jeremiah 13:25
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25 (A)This is your lot,
the portion I have measured out to you, declares the Lord,
because (B)you have forgotten me
and trusted in lies.
Jeremiah 3:21
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21 A voice on the (A)bare heights is heard,
(B)the weeping and pleading of Israel's sons
because they have perverted their way;
they have forgotten the Lord their God.
Romans 14:21
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21 (A)It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.[a]
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- Romans 14:21 Some manuscripts add or be hindered or be weakened
Jeremiah 44:25
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25 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: (A)You and your wives have declared with your mouths, and have fulfilled it with your hands, saying, ‘We will surely perform our vows that we have made, (B)to make offerings to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her.’ Then confirm your vows and perform your vows!
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Jeremiah 44:15-19
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15 Then all the men who knew that (A)their wives had made offerings to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, all the people who lived in (B)Pathros in the land of Egypt, answered Jeremiah: 16 “As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, (C)we will not listen to you. 17 (D)But we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to (E)the queen of heaven (F)and pour out drink offerings to her, (G)as we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our officials, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no disaster. 18 But since we left off making offerings to (H)the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything (I)and have been consumed by the sword and by famine.” 19 And the women said,[a] “When we made offerings to the queen of heaven (J)and poured out drink offerings to her, was it (K)without our husbands' approval that we made cakes for her bearing her image and poured out drink offerings to her?”
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- Jeremiah 44:19 Compare Syriac; Hebrew lacks And the women said
Jeremiah 19:5
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5 (A)and have built the high places of Baal (B)to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, (C)which I did not command or decree, nor did it come into my mind—
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Isaiah 62:10
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10 Go through, go through the gates;
(A)prepare the way for the people;
(B)build up, build up the highway;
clear it of stones;
(C)lift up a signal over the peoples.
Isaiah 9:16
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16 for those who guide this people have been leading them astray,
and those who are guided by them are swallowed up.
Isaiah 3:12
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12 My people—(A)infants are their oppressors,
and women rule over them.
O my people, (B)your guides mislead you
and they have swallowed up[a] the course of your paths.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 3:12 Or they have confused
Jeremiah 2:19
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19 (A)Your evil will chastise you,
and (B)your apostasy will reprove you.
Know and see that it is evil and (C)bitter
for (D)you to forsake the Lord your God;
the fear of me is not in you,
declares the Lord God of hosts.
Isaiah 65:7
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7 both your iniquities (A)and your fathers' iniquities together,
says the Lord;
(B)because they made offerings on the mountains
(C)and insulted me on the hills,
I will measure into their lap
payment for their former deeds.”[a]
Footnotes
- Isaiah 65:7 Or I will first measure their payment into their lap
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